“Now listen here you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi!”

William F. Buckley, the father of modern conservatism, died last year. Good riddance, I say. Check out this hilarious vintage clip of Buckley debating one of my favorite authors, Gore Vidal at the 1968 Democratic Convention. You won’t have so much fun listening to two mid-Atlantic accented, uber-intellectual children of rich people fight ever again.

“I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered!”